On Feb 26, 2014, at 5:37 PM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > If Vinay is happy with that last option for handling the current > > bdist_wheel misbehaviour > > that would mean we could leave the metadata version alone > > I've changed distlib to ignore pydist.json for wheels with version 1.0, where > METADATA is used instead. Note that bdist_wheel also puts a metadata version > of 2.0 in the METADATA file. > > IMO versioning the pydist.json is equivalent to versioning the .dist-info > directory - it certainly doesn't seem right to put a metadata version in the > directory name itself, as it would effectively be noise almost all of the > time. > > I think it may be premature to promote wheels (as pythonwheels.com is doing > with vigour) - nothing wrong with it in principle, of course, it's just the > timing which seems wrong. Before such promotion to the community at large, It > would seem advisable to get the PyPA house in order by (a) finalising the > PEPs which are in limbo because of the focus on getting 3.4 out, (b) ensuring > that the 1.1 spec for wheel covers any shortcomings which have been > identified in 1.0, as well as more extensive testing for the implementations, > and (c) revisiting accepted PEPs such as 425 to ensure that things are > tightened up where needed (for example, there are some problems relating to > tags, one of which IIRC Brian Wickman brought up a little while ago - about > whether tags should follow the PyPy version numbering rather than the Python > language version numbering). > > Regards, > > Vinay Sajip It makes perfect sense to version the dist-info directory. You don’t know how to interpret the files inside that directory without it. You have to rely on heuristics and guessing. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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